Antara Haldar is the University Lecturer in Empirical Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. She has also taught at Columbia University and the European University. She holds degrees in both law and economics, and specializes in law and development, law and economics and legal theory. She is currently a consultant to the United Nations on inclusive finance, and has served as an invited member of the academic committee of the American Bar Association’s World Justice Project and a core member of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue’s China Task Force. She has also been involved in legal reform projects in India, Canada and South Africa. She is a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research at the Judge Business School at Cambridge, in which capacity she is co-investigator on a number of Economic and Social Research Council-funded grant projects. She was the recipient of the Yorke Prize in 2011 for “making a substantial contribution to legal knowledge.”